The black raspberry cobbler was a complete success and super tasty. Seems like that will now be in my dessert rotation along with brownies from scratch.

Thank you for mentioning that. I've been holding onto that thought. I also keep reminding myself that we had to say goodbye to keep him from suffering. It was the right thing to do.

I'm slowly starting to get there. It's been tough doing the routine so far without him in the pack. Thank you ❤

Haven’t been able to work on much lately. My heart dog got sick and we lost him on Thursday, so most of my time at home was either spent caring for him, worrying about him, or crying/grieving for him.

We mainly just grill or do salad because lazy. I did fire up the oven today to make a black raspberry (picked fresh from our yard) cobbler, inspired by a Lifehacker post earlier this week. We’re having friends come over for steak and microwave “baked” potatoes first. I also picked up some locally made vanilla ice…

I’m so sorry for your recent loss as well. We may not have been able to get him to eat much yesterday, but I think between his walk and being in his yard and just having both of his people home with him, he had a good last day.

I’m so sorry for your recent loss. He definitely was a goofy boy and a truly weird dog, but so sweet.

He had a habit of shredding the blankets in his crate because of his separation anxiety. I thankfully cleaned up the pieces outside of his crate yesterday while he was still there to supervise me. The only other thing we’ve done is hung up his leash so I don’t accidentally grab it when I go to let the other dogs out.…

I’m so sorry for your loss. You’re very right. As much as this hurts, I’m so glad I had him in my life for as long as I did.

Thankfully everyone is being supportive right now, including my supervisor, who is not an animal person at all. It’s all very much appreciated.

He was. I called him my fluff nugget on a pretty regular basis. Thank you

Thank you.

Thank you. I felt so lucky to have him for five years. He was quite the dog.

Thank you.

I couldn't have done otherwise. Trying to keep going would only have been for my benefit. Our vet agreed that we did all we could for him. It doesn't hurt me any less, but he isn't hurting anymore and that's all that matters.

There is no good place to post this but I kind of need to. I lost my heart dog today, most likely to cancer. He was still kind of himself, but he had stopped eating and we couldn’t keep putting him through different ways to support him and get him to eat while he starved to death. Both my husband and I got to be home…

I’m so sorry this happened to you. I had my share of times where my mom didn’t believe me when I was sick or in pain because she is a nurse and “knew what she was doing.” I think the last time that happened was when I was in middle school on the way back from a camping trip and told her my foot was seriously itchy and…

I have been binging Queer Eye these past couple of days and planned to watch Nailed It very soon. I'm super excited for this!

The thoughts started getting really bad for me just last year at 34. I’m so sorry you and Ellie and others have been living with this for so long.

That’s absolutely not funny at all. I’m so sorry you experienced all of that and that your family was of no support to you. What an incredible experience to have taken from you. You were completely in the right to feel like you did.